Production Through Performance

Welcome to the world of musical innovation with our groundbreaking curriculum: "Production Through Performance." Tailored specifically for middle and high school settings, this comprehensive course invites students into an exciting realm of musical exploration.

Course Overview:

Production Through Performance empowers students to blend creativity seamlessly with technology in the art of music composition and performance. By combining theory, hands-on practice, and modern tools, students embark on a transformative journey in music production.

What's Covered:

In this dynamic curriculum, students master crafting music from scratch. They learn to create drum grooves, bass lines, chordal parts, and instrumental melodies using a MIDI keyboard and Soundtrap, a user-friendly DAW. These skills set the stage for students to explore diverse genres like sample-based hip-hop, catchy pop songs, and electrifying EDM compositions.

Interactive Learning:

Engaging resources include fillable PDF worksheets, animations, walkthrough videos, and Soundtrap templates. Students can apply course skills through embedded templates. Curated Spotify playlists further enrich the learning journey.

Empowering Educators:

Recognizing educators' pivotal role, the Production Through Performance curriculum equips teachers with comprehensive lesson plans, rubrics, a unit sequencing guide, and integration tools for popular Learning Management Systems. These tools guide students through a transformative musical experience.

Multiple Pathways:

Beyond its immediate benefits, this curriculum opens doors to diverse careers. Graduates could become music producers, recording engineers, composers for various media, educators, or content creators.

Accessible and Adaptable:

Adapting to any tech setup, our curriculum thrives on Chromebooks, Macs, and PCs using Soundtrap. With up to two 18-week semesters of content, it suits various levels and durations.

A Gateway to Rewire Theory:

For deeper music theory understanding, Production Through Performance serves as an ideal primer for our "Rewire Theory" program. Graduates can transition seamlessly to explore advanced musical intricacies.

Join us in revolutionizing music education with Production Through Performance. Watch your students evolve into composers, performers, and music technologists, ready to shape the future of music. Start the journey today and empower your students with skills for a lifetime of musical creativity.

SAMPLE COURSE MATERIALS

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For general information and inquiries: Bob@shedthemusic.com

Testimonials

“The Production Through Performance PD session and Curriculum are SUPERIOR: 1) thorough, well-paced, and developmentally appropriate, 2) easy to use and helpful worksheets, walk-through videos are of the highest quality and will be accessible for all learning levels and types!”

- Clara Knotts (Lincoln High and Swift Creek Middle in Tallahassee, FL)

“Beat Bootcamp has shown me a way to engage students in music production that encourages and facilities music performance. I am so excited to incorporate what I learned into my own curriculum.”

- Jennifer Forness, Head of Music, International School Frankfurt, Germany

“I love your approach and how you clearly communicate everything. I appreciate your sense of humor and think it is a great boon to the course, it makes things fun. You have a real knack for communicating every extremely well thought out detail very clearly in the videos, in the graphic organizers, honestly, in every aspect of the course. I wish you had been my music teacher when I was a kid. Haha! It's all very impressive. Truly impressive work. I want to take all of your classes and PD.”

“Production Through Performance is a great curriculum that addresses multiple areas of music content and offers differentiated modes of delivery. I love the creativity for addressing skills practice and music literacy. Fabulous!”

- Kimberly Scott, Washburne School (Winnetka, IL District 36)

“This curriculum is A-MAZ-ING! Bob has broken down the steps to successfully teaching how to teach digital musical composing. The teacher portal has videos of Bob going through each lesson step by step so you can then present the material to your students as an expert. These lessons are rigorous and packed with standards from the National Core Arts Standards. This curriculum is the NOW of music education. Do yourself and your students a favor by checking it out!”

- Alexis Yatuzis Derryberry , TN Music Education Association, President

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